Hybrid Meet & Greet Info!!!!!!!

[jimmythegreek]

heres an update......I fished yesterday w jackstraw on his new Lund and the lake was still upside down. I fished it the sunday before with the same situation. 2 weeks ago the water temps started dropping real fast and it was on fire. Now the temps went from 64 2 weeks ago back to 71 and its been tuff fishing to say the least. At least yesterday there was bait balls where they are supposed to be around 35-40 on dropoffs, but no fish on them, and still alot of bait shallow and fish scattered. This time of year the bait should be balled up into huge schools and the wipers just hang out near them and relate to their food source. No schools to be found just fish scattered around, and guys were catching small #s of fish on every method. Guys were even fishing the bottom with chicken livers and having a few fish. Seems past 2 weeks livelining has been doing best for the guys I know, downlining has kinda shut down. I REALLY hope we get some rain and some cold temps overnight we need the water to get to 65 or under this week to turn them on and go deep, thats when u can hammer them. I will post a report on Saturday I will be out all day and find some fish and mark them on a paper map so everyone knows some spots they can at least get on them. Best bet for artificials is some kind of jig, u all know i LOVE the binsky, but I also use VMC mooneye jigs w twistertails, gulp, whatever as the plastic, its better to have a jig setup that u can cast a little ways and hop back to the boat, vertical jigging is tough this early as u have to be right on them. Also there are crappie everywhere, its off the hook. I mean thousands of them, huge schools. bring a crappie rod or the right jigs/bait and u can bring home a cooler of them, they are all sitting in 35fow on the drops, so thats an option as well. Water is rly low but launchable hopefully rain this week will keep it close to what it is now, get there early if you r launching ur boat and ask for help if you need it.

Thanks for the info Jimmy...will be fishing Hopatcong tomorrow .......will let you know how we do...never fished it before so it's gonna be a trial and error type of day...Launching out of Lee's.....Tornado isn't stopping us....besides, weatherman is almost always wrong....

[FASTEDDIE29]

Cool weather is on the way guys, no worries! Ah yes, looks like a Striper kind of day out there right now!!!! We'll get on the fish, oh yes we will!!!!

Love me some plastics as well, twister tails, swim shads, paddle tails finesse minnows. All good stuff for jigging.

[waynedane]

Fished the lake today, middle ramp has 1.9 ft. Be careful launching guys, I can't go Sunday with the water getting lower barely made it today. I have an 18ft DV aluminum boat.

[jimmythegreek]

stay off the middle ramp! its the shallowest one, the last ramp is the deep one. Nobody with 19' or under boats will have a problem launching this weekend, just have to be careful, plus we got and getting some rain wont get much lower by sunday

[GetANet]

A little trouble possibly launching is NOT gonna stop me! Did the guy who bottomed out his motor have it up? Or did he try to drive it on? Gotta use some good old fashion "Common Sense" and all will be fine. I know there will be plenty of help available if needed. Got some rain coming too so hope it helps a little too! Cooler weather is gonna really turn the bite on so stop worrying and come catch some fish!!!!

[flatcreek]

We launch at Spruce run when the water is down 10 ft or more and don't have a problem. This should be a piece of cake.

[jimmythegreek]

phil the ramps at SR are a 100 times better than lees ramps, the reservoirs know they have fluctuating levels of water and the ramps are inclined like 75 feet so u can launch when level is down. LH wasnt designed this way, the ramps arent nearly as deep, they can handle low water and the yearly winter drawdown, but it doesnt usually start til late Nov. and only drops 1.5-2 feet by Dec. The 5 year drawdown starts last week of Sept. and is supposed to be down 5 feet by Dec 15th, so we are already 2+ feet down. Most boats will be off the concrete ramp into gravel to launch, but its still like 3-4 feet which is plenty for fishing boats, if u have a fiberglass bowrider u will not have fun launching haha. The trick is to back in as far as possible to get the back to float then power off in reverse trimmed up high, and stay that way. I use my trolling motor w the big motor all the way up once im off. Im fishing all day saturday and Im gonna check all the ramps w an empty trailer to see whats best for Sun and I will mark spots and fish and hand out a paper photocopy map for guys without GPS. My buddys Lund sits way higher than my crestliner on the trailer and we got in and out NO problems on Sunday, Im not worried

[Mikeps326]

You guys are true fishermen. You will help out that much just so you can see most people have a good day of fishing there are people that hate seeing other people catch fish and will do things so they lose their fish or can't catch anymore. Can't wait for Sunday they are showing cloudy conditions hopefully that'll be good for the hybrids and walleye! See you guys Sunday morning!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

THIS SUNDAY IS GOING TO BE EPIC!!!! Just show up, no worries.
Can't wait to get out with the fellas!


TIGHT LINEZ!!!!!!!!